terry wrote:Let's leave light speed and come back to a human scale - let's look at the Voyager space probe, something we know about but cannot see. Launched in 1977, it has left the solar system. It's travelling at 3 AU a year (1 AU is the distance of earth to Sun). In 5,000 years, based on an objective clock, it will be the year 6977, and Voyager will actually be 15,000 AU away, but in that new Kalpa experience, the reincarnated "yadavas" will be launching it FOR THE FIRST (AND ONLY) TIME. It is only ever launched once.
An "astronomical unit" (abbreviated as AU) is nearly 150,000,000 kilometres or 93,000,000 miles. Therefore, in 5,000 years time, Voyager will be 750,000,000,000 kilometers or 465,000,000,000 miles away.
Now, in the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual UNIVERSITY, some of us were told - in all seriousness - that the Golden Aged deities or Advanced Party building heaven on earth flew up into space in their flying machines to remove all the Kali Yuga space junk bring it back to earth in order that it could be sent back up to space again in 4,950 years. By "space junk", I mean all the dead satellites, bits of rockets, the infamous flag on the moon etc.
A light year is 9,460,730,472,580 km or 63,241 astronomical units. So, to go get Voyager, you will need to travel at least 30,000 AU (depending on your mathematical ability to find its specific location in the middle of a very dark and infinite space), by my abacus that is half a life year away. So to catch it, you are going to have to travel as fast as light for 6 months, half the speed of light equals one year and so on.
The question is, for any buddying BK phsycist, how fast do vimana's fly, how much energy will that require and by what means?
There are more than 600,000 bits of space junk larger than 1 cm in orbit, including 15 years of black bin bags full of rubbish thrown out by the Russians from their MIR space station. (Bloody Russians, who would want neighbours like them? But I hate to think what will happen when the Indians get into space ... all that curry, no sewers and no untouchables to clean up after them).
The point being is, that unless you recover them and put the elements that created them back into the ground, the earth will reduce in size every infinitely repeating Kalpa until there are no more metals left.
In space, no one can smell your junk stink.